AhR ligands, malassezin, and indolo[3,2-b]carbazole are selectively produced by Malassezia furfur strains isolated from seborrheic dermatitis

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1620-1625

  Gaitanis, George ^a,c   Magiatis, Prokopios ^b   Stathopoulou, Konstantina ^b   Bassukas, Ioannis D ^c   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^d   Velegraki, Aristea ^a   Skaltsounis, Alexios Leandros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 INDOLECARBALDEHYDE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLO[3,2 B]CARBAZOLE; LIGAND; MALASSEZIN; PITYRIACITRIN;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS;

EID: 45349105125     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5701252     Document Type: Article

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